Abner snoddy



A. SNODDY.

WHEEL (No Model.)

No. 447,797. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

NITED ATENT Fries.

ABNER SNODDY, OF BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO MINNIE SNODDY,

l Y OF SAME PLACE.

WH E E L.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,79*?, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed .Tune l, 1889. Renewed July 31, 1890. Serial No, 360,465. Y(No model.)

To all whom t may concern: or spread apart by rotating the coupling-col- Be it known that I, ABNER SNODDY, a citilar in one direction. When the collar is rozen of the United States, residing at Bellefontated so as to spread the sections of the hub taine, in the county of Logan and State of apart, the spokes will be loosened, so as to 45 5 Ohio, have invented a new and useful Vheel, provide for shrinkage of the tire and the felly, of which the following is a specification. and thereby prevent straining and breaking My invention relates to improvements in of the wheel; and when the collar is moved in Wheels; and it consists in certain novel feathe opposite direction the sections of the hub tures hereinafter described and claimed. will be drawn together, so as to tighten the to In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is spokes and accommodate the wheel to the a perspective View of a wheel embodying my stretching of the tire, as will be readily uninvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the derstood. same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of the hub. It will thus be seen that' the construction The felly A, tire B, and spokes C are all of and arrangement shown and described pro- 55 15 the usual or any preferred construction. The vide a wheel in which the tire can be quickly hub is made in two sections D E, and metallic and easily tightened or loosened according to sleeves F are secured in the bores of the two the changes of the temperature, and in which sections and project inward from the same, the several parts are compactly arranged and the inner ends of said sleeves being threaded, protected from injury. 4 6o zo as clearly shown, the inner end of one sleeve Having thus described my invention, what having aright-hand thread and the inner end I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patof the other sleeve having a left-hand thread. ent, is- The inner ends of the sleeves are engaged by The combination of the hubsections D E, the ends of a coupling collar or ring G, which the sleeves F F, fitted in and extending 65 2 5 is provided on its outer side at its center with through the 'bores of said hub-sections and a number of liat surfaces, which give it an provided at their outer ends with anges f, angular outline and adapt it to be engaged bearing against the outer ends of said hubby a wrench. The inner ends of the spokes sections, a right-and-left-hand-threaded Ynut are fitted in sockets in the members D E of adjusted upon the correspondingly-threaded 7o 3o the hub and radiate therefrom to the felly. inner ends of the sleeves and having an an- The outer ends of the sleeves F have flanges gular surface forming a wrench-seat, the rim, or collars f, that bear against the outer ends and the spokes having theirinner ends seated of the hub-sections. in sockets in the hub-sections, all constructed The construction and arrangement of the 4 and arranged substantially as set forth. 75 35 parts of my Wheel being thus disclosed, the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as advantages of the same will, it is thought, be my own I have hereto affixed my signature in readily understood. The inner ends of the presence of two witnesses.

sleeves secured in the sections of the hub be- ABNER SNODDY. ing provided with right and left hand threads, litiiesses: Y 4o the hubs will be simultaneously moved in op- S. H. MILLER,

posite directions, so as to be brought together K XV. A. WEST. 

